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by okanat 1y ago
This will be anecdotal. However both in the academia and in the semi-professional space, I encountered certain type of programmer who is a bit more "religiously minded" (both in the technical space and quite often in their persona
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by okanat 1y ago
We are running systemd with all bells and whistles on Raspberry Pi based 1 GB RAM systems. systemd-networkd, iwd, timers etc. The base usage barely touches 350 MiBs. Our actual application is containerized with systemd thanks to broad set o
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by okanat 1y ago
Doesn't work on Windows. It is also quite complex and demands huge investment of time to understand its language which isn't so nice to program in it. The number of cached combinations of various ABI and dependency setting is smal
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by okanat 1y ago
Good software is never freemium. It is either paid upfront or it is a timebomb. I am okay with keeping things proprietary and asking for a fair price. Once free-to-play is introduced, the software is gone for good. I thought about buying Af
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by okanat 1y ago
yes.
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by okanat 1y ago
Well handling OS-dependent binary dependency is still unsolved because of the intricate behavior of native libraries and especially how tightly C and C++ compilers integrate with their base operating systems. vcpkg, Conan, containers, Yocto
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by okanat 1y ago
I actually got interested in Rust because its integer types and the core data structures looked sane, instead of this insanity: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/types/integer.html . Fluid integer types are e
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by okanat 1y ago
Pixi is great! It doesn't purely use uv though. I just love it. It solves "creating a repo that runs natively on any developer's PC natively" problem quite well. It handles different dependency trees per OS for the same
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by okanat 1y ago
Not the OP but does this actually package CUDA and the CUDA toolchain itself or just the libraries around it? Can it work only with PyTorch or "any" other library? Conda packaging system and the registry is capable of understandin
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by okanat 1y ago
If you would like to see an actually "interesting" boot, I recommend checking out how Raspberry Pi's boot. It is a unique monstrosity that boots from the video / GPU core instead of one of the ARM cores. It has an arcane
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by okanat 1y ago
People still need to do driver ddvelopement. So you can still set up a Windows PC to expose kernel debug interface over serial port: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/d...
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by okanat 1y ago
and with GRUB running under UEFI, it actually uses UEFI load procedures instead of fumbling with 16-bit CS, DS, SS registers
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by okanat 1y ago
> > split Glibc into 3 parts: syscalls, dynamic loader and the actual C library. > What is left of the C standard library, if you remove syscall wrappers? Still quite a bit actually. Stuff like malloc, realloc, free, fopen, FILE, g
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by okanat 1y ago
This is one of the cornerstones that guarantee Windows can easily upgrade the C runtime and make performance and security upgrades. Win32 APIs have a different function calling ABI too. So only part of that gets "bloated" is Win32
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by okanat 1y ago
Yeah. I expected better from LWN.
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by okanat 1y ago
Even if you don't want to use it since it is not as efficient as a hand-written specialized parser, Kaitai Struct gives a perfect way of documenting file formats. I love the idea and every bit of the project!
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by okanat 1y ago
Sure. Probably you shouldn't dump it at once but let the 7 year old ask questions one at a time. I think you can still explain it one at a time. I am aware that readers of HN are not 7 year olds. Now try explaining any kind of encrypti
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by okanat 1y ago
That's why participation from opposition and actual members of the public in the area of election is important. If you and your friends / family are afraid of intimidation, you show up. Gather as many people as you can as observer
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by okanat 1y ago
It is not the paper ballots that's taken advantage of. They have no general public participation and opposition. The public simply do not give a damn about polling stations in places where Carousel voting is possible. There is no oppos
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by okanat 1y ago
You still have to securely distribute those machines. All of the things still apply. Actually you need even more security! Printing paper is cheap. Shipping it is cheap. Checking it is cheap and obvious. Reprinting is cheap. You don't
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by okanat 1y ago
The cost of human labor? Maybe US-exceptionalism is peeking through? In actually democratic countries the elections are done on holidays(Sunday) and the polling stations are in where you live. It is your vote you silly. It is your democr
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by okanat 1y ago
If there is a most HN comment award, this comment must get it. Congrats you invented the most expensive pen / stamp!
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by okanat 1y ago
Intel IoT boards generally hover around 10 W at idle. ARM SoMs usually 5 W. You need to order some prototypes for testing of course. Pricing is quite different from supplier to supplier. Usually around 50 - 100 € Here are a couple suppliers
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by okanat 1y ago
You may ask how do you make sure nobody changes the votes in the box somehow? First the box is in front of everybody. Second, before allowing people to throw votes in, you seal the box with an tamper evident seal. Usually pouring beeswax ov
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by okanat 1y ago
That's an inquisitive 7 year old. Definitely reward them. Let's explain. A good voting system needs to guarantee - Secrecy of who voted for whom - Transparency of everything else. The names of everybody in the process, the process
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by okanat 1y ago
Public trust cannot exist if the voting system requires *any* expertise. Voting systems should be idiot-proof. If you cannot explain how voting system is manipulation-proof to a 7 year old, your voting system is untrustworthy. This means an
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by okanat 1y ago
You are approaching this conversation as if a violent battle and assume bad intent. No more responses.
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by okanat 1y ago
I didn't suggest that Eastern EU should stay with ICEs forever. I just argued that 2035 is too early of a deadline. Infrastructure for importing and processing fossil fuels has been organically developed and it is there everywhere. The
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by okanat 1y ago
2035 is a massive "screw you, stop being poor" for Eastern and Southern members of the EU where the electrical infrastructure is weak in many parts. EVs need to get 1/3 of the price they are now to be viable in those markets
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by okanat 1y ago
Benchmarks are alright but as an embedded engineer I first select a performance segment and then actually prioritize the hardware abilities and engineering support from the SoC manufacturer. Before getting into benchmarks I would actually l

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